KAMRA vs Dossier
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
KAMRA
This app simulates the look and feel of analog film photography with realistic grain, halation, and color grading. It offers multiple film stocks and randomized effects for unique results with every shot.
- 8 hand-tuned film stocks
- Realistic grain structure
- True halation and bloom effects
- Randomized tone and light balance
- Live graded viewfinder
- Adjustable soft focus
- Multiple lens options
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KAMRA. Film camera. No excuses. Eight hand-tuned stocks — Kodak Gold, Fuji C, Velvia, Ilford, Portra, and more. Each one built with its own grain structure, halation, colour curves, and shadow tint. Applied the moment you shoot. Grain that reads the light. Coarser in the shadows. Finer in the highlights. Animated every frame. Halation that bleeds warm and red from your highlights — not a glow filter. Physics. Every frame gets a randomized tone, light balance, and shadow depth. Same scene. Never the same photo. KAMRA shoots like film feels. — 8 colour-graded film stocks — Real luminance grain · ISO 100 to 3200 — True halation & bloom — Live graded viewfinder — Randomised light leaks per shot — Soft focus with adjustable bloom — 0.5× · 1× · 2× lens switching — Self-timer · flash support — Home screen widget
Dossier
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Dossier is a privacy-first iPhone camera for the three jobs where pointing an unredacted lens at a person is a real problem: real estate, legal, and journalism. Faces blur in real time. Voices pitch-shift before the audio is even written to the file. Nothing ever leaves your phone. FOR REAL ESTATE AGENTS Walk a listing without filming the seller, their kids, or the family photos on the wall. Every face in frame is mosaiced as you record — including the buyer who just walked into your shot. Drop a manual blur box over a license plate or personal mail. Name each clip in your library ("412 Maple — kitchen") and sort by listing, client, or date. FOR PARALEGALS AND INVESTIGATORS Capture a witness statement with the speaker's voice pitch-shifted from the moment of capture, so no unredacted audio is ever stored. Every export carries a SHA-256 fingerprint you can prove later in court — show months from now that a copy is bit-for-bit identical to the original, or prove it isn't. Live captions burn into the recording for transcription. Lock the library behind Face ID. FOR JOURNALISTS Bystanders auto-blur so a source isn't compromised by being in your B-roll. Mark Region covers anything the auto-pass missed — a badge, a door number. The Safety Pass re-scans your finished clip for faces detected at frame edges. Everything happens locally — no servers, no telemetry, no third-party SDKs. WHAT DOSSIER DOES • Real-time face blur — baked into the file, no unredacted version is ever stored. • Voice change — pitch-shifted before audio is written. • Live captions — on-device speech recognition, burned into video. • Tamper-evident receipts — SHA-256 fingerprint + audit PDF for every export. • Dual-aspect & dual-camera — portrait + landscape in one take, or front + back simultaneously. • Mark Region — manual blur box over anything missed. • Safety Pass — second-look scan for missed faces. • Photos too — stills get the same face-blur pipeline. • Import & redact existing footage from your Photos library. • Titles & tags — built for libraries past a hundred clips. PRIVACY • No accounts. No sign-up. No analytics. No ads. • No network access of any kind. Dossier has no servers. • Face detection, voice change, captions, hashing — all run on-device. • Face ID / passcode lock optional on the library. REQUIREMENTS • iPhone running iOS 17 or later. • Multi-camera and dual-aspect need iPhone 11 or later. A NOTE ON LAWFUL USE Recording laws vary by jurisdiction. Many places require all-party consent for private conversations. Dossier shows a one-time disclaimer on first launch — lawful use is your responsibility. The redaction features are a defense-in-depth tool, not a substitute for consent.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Dossier at 17.0 against KAMRA's 26.2. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. KAMRA sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Dossier sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | KAMRA | Dossier |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.2 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 141 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dornell Mister | Weihan Ding |
In-app purchases
KAMRA
- KAMRAKAMRA PREMIUM$5.99
Dossier
- Dossier Pro$9.99









